FOR APC, IT IS POLITICAL PAY-BACK TIME…by ~ Samuel Ajayi

Opinion

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“Igba a ba fi win oka ni a o fi gba a.” – Yoruba proverb

For the benefit of our non Yoruba speakers, I will soon come back for translation of this proverb. But before then, let me make something clear: I am NOT a fan of Gov. Fayose. I always believe he could make do with tact rather than exuberance. However, whenever he hits APC and especially, President Buhari, I always hear this voice inside me: “Serve them right”.

In the same vein, whenever someone calls Buhari derogatory names, I always feel uncomfortable but hey, I could hardly upbraid the person these days. Why? When you set a standard, you always live with it. If you do not respect your elder brother, your younger brother will treat you like a trash. IT IS THE LAW OF NATURE!

APC took politics of bitterness and anti-country posturing to an unprecedented heights when Jonathan was in power. They spared nothing. They demonized him (which might be normal in politics) but beyond that, they wished Nigeria evil when he was in power. APC sided with Boko Haram. They wrote to the US not to sell arms to us. They reported us to European Union. They reported the then chief of army staff, Azubuike Ihejirika, to the ICC. (Can you imagine that?) What was his offence? For killing Boko Haram members. They commissioned CNN to do a documentary on the “killings”. Any time Nigeria was frustrated for not being able to buy arms, APC and its supporters celebrated it! Whenever Boko Haram leveled any village or announced any ‘victory’, our compatriots were always happy. YET, THEY CLAIMED THEY WERE NIGERIANS!

What of name calling? Up till now, you read names like “morons”, “idiots”, “fools”, “lunatics”, “buffons” and so on. Where are people called these names? Because they do not support Buhari or APC! No other offence than that. These are names some little minds call others purely for political reasons. And same names they used severally on the former president. One of Buhari’s ardent supporters once said: “All Jonathan’s supporters are fools”. He said it on my wall. I quickly did the needful.

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The questions are these: if you did not imbibe the spirit of nationalism and patriotism when Jonathan was in power, why do you want someone else to imbibe such now? Just as it was your ‘choice’ then, na by force now? If you derived pleasure in calling the former president names, terribly derogatory names, why do you feel sick if someone calls the current president names? If el-Rufai could accuse Jonathan of going to Chad to plan another terror and also reported his country to ICC because of Boko Haram, then what is wrong in Fayose telling China not to give us loan?

It is the size of grain we ‘loaned’ out that we will always collect back. So says the adage at the beginning of this post.

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